Primary Site Procedures for Windows Remote Seeding to Clustered Data ONTAP

From your master server, perform a base Image backup of the appropriate nodes or volumes at the primary location.

Note. Catalogic DPX does not support source node deduplication in image backups for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and later. For seeding purposes, the recommended best practice is to disable deduplication on the Windows server or volume that is to be backed up via the base Image backup. After seeding is completed, you can reactivate deduplication on the Windows client.

Take the following steps to create a base Image backup of the Microsoft Windows system for the primary node:

1. Disable the change journal:

   1. In the Microsoft Windows system for the primary node, open Microsoft Windows PowerShell, Microsoft PowerShell, or Microsoft Command Prompt (“cmd”).

   2. Change the current directory to bin in the Catalogic DPX product folder. In Microsoft Windows PowerShell or Microsoft PowerShell, use the following command:

   3. Set-Location C:\Program Files\BEX\bin\

   4. Or, in Microsoft Command Prompt, use the following command:

      CD C:\Program Files\BEX\bin\

   5. Use the following command to run the syncui program on either type of shells:

      syncui

   6. Use the following command to connect to the primary node, where is the local host name of it:

      c s <localhost> sssnap

   7. Use the following command to disable the journal change, where <localhost> represents the drive letter of the target drive:

      snap disablecj e:

   8. Enter quit to exit the syncui utility. The change journal is automatically re-enabled when the Image backup is run. The procedure to disable the change journal must be repeated for each volume to be backed up.

   
2. Launch the Java-based DPX Management Interface and log in to it.

3. Open the Backup tab in the function tab bar. Open Image in the task pane.

4. Create an Image backup job with the appropriate source and destination selections.

5. On the task pane, click Set Source Options.

6. In the NDMP File History Handling drop-down, click Disable File History.

7. In the Additional NDMP Environment field, type: NIB_BACKUP_SEEDING=Y.

8. Click Save Backup Job, save the job with a unique job name, then run the job.

9. Select the Catalog tab, then click Job Functions. Note the job ID issued for this Image backup job.

10. Transport the physical media that contains the Image backup to its designated destination; that is, the location of the NetApp storage system.